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Finding a profiler that works, damnit

Finding a profiler that works, damnit

Posted Mar 26, 2010 23:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Finding a profiler that works, damnit by foom
Parent article: KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management

There is already a DWARF unwinder in the kernel (or was, and it could be
resurrected). The tricky part is making it paranoid enough to be
non-DoSable, even by hostile generators of DWARF2. IIRC the kernel
unwinder was ripped out by Linus because it kept falling over when
unwinding purely kernel stack frames...


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